Prompt:
In our discussion, we read a series of short stories from Nafissa Thompson Spires’ Heads of the Colored People where we emphasized how different characters’ racial identity ultimately affects their reality (racial profiling, innate competition between BIPOC in PWIs or white spaces unresolved childhood trauma affecting adulthood, etc.).For this assignment, you
must argue how least two (2) of Thompson Spires’ stories spark a much needed discussion regarding racial identity and social issues. In addition to reading the story and understanding the plot, you have to figure out why Nafissa Thompson-Spires is writing the story this way.
Requirements:
– Pick two of the three short stories I provided from Heads of Colored People,
us them as the two sources from the book:
- Belles lettres
- The body’s defenses against itself
- Fatima, the biloquist: a transformation story
– Use these two articles as the two peer-reviewed secondary sources:
1. https://oce-ovid-com.proxy.libraries.rutgers.edu/article/00005205-199907000-00010/HTML
article name: Perceiving Pervasive Discrimination Among African Americans : Implications for Group Identification and Well-Being
2. https://www-sciencedirect-com.proxy.libraries.rutgers.edu/science/article/pii/S0277953621005980
article name: Forms and frequency of vicarious racial discrimination and African American parents’ health
– Needs a direct quote and citation 1 minimum per body paragraph
– each quote needs an analysis
– no summarization of the text, must be deep analysis
– rest of instruction listed in both documents attached. please follow those directions very closely and message me if there is any confusion to avoid delay